Improvement in bale-ties



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

HENRY A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

f IMPROVEMENT VIN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,858, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HoUsE, of

Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Mode of Securing Bundles or Pareels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specitication, in

whichy Figure l represents my improved mode of securing kindling-wood, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show the fastening.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inthe two figures.

The object Qf this invention is to secure bundles of kindling-wood and other parcels `by means of'flexible bands and metallic fasty such, for instance, as sheet metal, and may be struck out of a sheet by machinery suitably adapted to the purpose. This clamp b consists of a central concave-convex portion and two griping-tongues, b b', formed on its periphery diametrically opposite each other.

When the band a is drawn tightly around the bundle and the ends crossed, the clamp is applied to these ends by bending over them the pointed tongues b b', as shown in Figs. 3v

and 4. These tongues are firmly pressed over and into the band, they being turned into the concavity of the portion b, so that they will be protected, and not be liable toinjure the hands.

I have described and represented the central portion of the clamp b as being constructed with a concave-convex form 5 but While I prefer that form, for the reasons stated, I will vhere state that the clamp may be made in form of a staple, and the tongues formed onthe ends of the staple-form clamp, by giving said ends a fan -tail shape; or the fastening described may have its central portion, from which the tongues project or extend, made iiat; also that any suitable number of tongues may be adopted.

Having described my invention, whatI claim as new, and' desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The device a b, substantially as described, for securing bundles or parcels.

HENRY A. HOUSE.

Witnesses: v GEORGE G. Brsnor, ALFRED B. BEERs. 

